Many of our staff members in the Department of Commercial Law have presented seminars on their different areas of research and often bring up topical issues that attract audiences from outside the environs of the University.

Taxation policy has become an election issue and the Labour party’s Capital Gains Tax (CGT) has attracted significant media interest. The Department of Commercial Law’s taxation staff, however, had already raised the issue of CGT in various forum

As she nears the end of her three-year tenure at the helm of the Department of Commercial Law, Professor Susan Watson says she is pleased with how far the department has come since it became part of the Business School.